53 Web Content Quotes

Following is our list of web content quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about web design.

Web Page Quotes

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it. — Tim Berners-Lee

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin. — Michael Shermer

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page. — William J. Clinton

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist. — Steven Pinker

We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages. — Sergey Brin

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world. — Clifford Stoll

I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers. — Cliff Stearns

Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV. — Dave Barry

People are only concerned about the next party, meeting up for casual sex, finding a job as a Web page designer, or getting a new apartment. — John C. Dvorak

Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, been talking to my cat on the Internet. — William J. Clinton

Web Design Quotes

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good. — Paula Scher

Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries. — Neville Brody

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. — Massimo Vignelli

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another. — Chip Kidd

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. — Tim Berners-Lee

Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that. — Paul Cookson

Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the design of our collective humanity. — Lisa Hunt

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores. — Chip Kidd

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer. — Jeffrey Zeldman

I love the fact that I work with everything that has to do with the brand, the product, the environment, the online, the architecture, the web design, because I am somebody that loves making things, making experiences, creating things that people love to engage with. — Christopher Bailey

More Web Content Quotes

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer. — Jeffrey Zeldman

Instead of one-way interruption, Web marketing is about delivering useful content at just the right moment that a buyer needs it. — David Meerman Scott

Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an agency to interrupt others. — David Meerman Scott

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity. — Jeffrey Zeldman

Content is the currency of the social web and sharing that content is the catalyst to new relationships and business benefits. — Mark Schaefer

Content is anything that adds value to the reader's life. — Avinash Kaushik

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes. — Ted Nelson

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized. — Dhani Harrison

We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion. — Nick Denton

I cant predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video. — Salar Kamangar

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser. — Mike Davidson

Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat. — Mike Davidson

I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to where we are, along with the development of content, which is designed to do nothing else but make you click on it or share it. And I think it's kind of a low goal for content, and I think that's taken us to our current abyss. — Tim Wu

HuffPost serves as a starter page for news consumers, a place to find, and be directed to, the best content available on the Web. We consistently link out directly to other sites - often from our top-of-the-page headline. — Arianna Huffington

I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or even comic books... — Adi Shankar

Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support. — Matt Nix

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. The web model is just so much more complicated, and involves this third party of advertisers, and all these other sources of revenue that are sort of provisional, but haven't been proven yet. — Dave Eggers

The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space. — Tim Berners-Lee

An electronic paper has infinite space because you can bring forth as much content as a reader wants. And the resolution of ads is very high. And when you touch the ad you can interact with the advertiser and the paper will take you to the advertiser's Web site and you can get more information. So ideally there should be a better connection between the ads you're shown and what you're actually interested in. — Russ Wilcox

Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it. — Jamais Cascio

IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators. — Paul Thurrott

Ive made sure to always update my web properties constantly - Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, my Hypebeast blog making sure I divided content across all of them to keep each outlet fresh to keep people coming back. — Theophilus London

If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone. — Vinton Cerf

There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity. — John Doerr

The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content. — John Doerr

I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser. — Robert Cailliau

On the Web you have to sum up what your piece of content is in one link or nobody is going to watch it. That's the same thing I've been hearing from TV executives - is we need a program that you can have on the side of a bus and someone can watch it go by and get what the show is and want to watch it. — Ricky Van Veen

How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline. — Marvin J. Ashton

With the support of our vibrant web developer community and dedicated partners, our goal is to level the playing field and usher in an explosion of content and services that will meet the diverse needs of the next two billion people online. — Gary Kovacs

Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads. — Nick Denton

Every page of content you've created could be the first interaction with your web site.Think of every page as a home page. — Jay Baer

The world needs sustainable, profitable, vibrant content companies staffed by dedicated professionals; especially content for people that grew up on the web, whose entertainment and news interests are largely neglected by television and newspapers. — Jonah Peretti

I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn. — Margaret Fuller

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